Danny Johnson received a bill for $1,000 from a zombie, and he doesn’t want to pay.
The letterhead on the bill reads “Hutcheson Medical Center,” the bankrupt Fort Oglethorpe hospital that died last month in a sale to a company from Atlanta. But while Hutcheson is no more after 53 years, people are still trying to collect outstanding debts for the hospital.
Johnson said his debt isn’t real, though. Among the stress of bankruptcy and lawsuits and counter lawsuits and a temporary closing, Johnson thinks, somebody at the hospital must have made a mistake.
Last year, he said, he paid Hutcheson $11,000 for a hernia surgery. He also owed $1,116 for work performed by an anesthesiologist, which he was paying in six installments of $186. He said he has paid five of those installments.
But on May 26, a letter arrived at his house from Hutcheson, asking for $914. He doesn’t understand how the hospital came up with this bill. He doesn’t plan to cut a check.